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Welcome to Britain, a very typically European country. And now the good fight with Jascha Monk.
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Magazines and publications sometimes have sidelines in earning money by organizing cruises for which they get some of their most distinguished contributors to serve as tour guides as you float through the Mediterranean. We decided to offer something like that free of charge for you. Today we are going to go on a tour of Europe from the northwestern end of the United Kingdom towards the southeast with Hungary and Ukraine. And of course, the most distinguished possible tour guide of Europe's history and its contemporary political scene is Timothy Garten Asch. Timothy is the professor of European Studies Emeritus at the University of Oxford and a Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He is also the author among among many books of a forthcoming Europe in seven and a half chapters, the shortest introduction to the world's oldest and newest continent. He promises that it's less than 40,000 words, so I'm excited about that book, which will be out in the fall. We talked about the local election results in the United Kingdom, the fall of a two party system, the rise of reform and the Greens, and of Muslim independent candidates. We talked about the upcoming presidential election in France in about a year's time in which Marine Le Pen, or if she's barred from running Jordan Bardela now seem likely to win. We talked about Germany's social and political malaise. Why is it that this country, which had a very working economic and political model after World War II, seems to be struggling so badly? We talked about the one piece of good news in Hungary, why it is that Orban was able to lose elections at the ballot box, even though some people had doubted that, and whether the new government is going to be able to solve a post populist dilemma, as I like to call it, or trilemma, as Timothy refers to it as. And we also talk behind the paywall about the future of Ukraine and the Ukraine war as well as Europe's relationship with the United States. Timothy seems a little bit more optimistic than most about a kind of semi return to normality in US European relations, depending on who sits in the White House on January 20, 2029. To listen to that part of the podcast to support the work we do here, please go to writing.jaschammonk.com listen and if you are a paying subscriber and you are erroneously getting this message then you are on the wrong feed. Go to writing. Monk.com listen and click on Set Up Podcasts to get access to the prem feet of the Good Fight. Timothy Garten Ash, welcome back to the podcast. Great to be back. So I thought that we would do a little European tour with you. I didn't tell you that we'd hired you as a tour guide, but you are our historically informed politically tour guide. We're going to do a little trip from the northwest of a continent to the southeast in rough geographical order. Order. We'll start with local elections in Britain, but doesn't sound particularly exciting, but the results are literally coming in as we speak and they seem to herald a very significant political shift in British politics. What is your read on what is happening?
